Brooklyn Book Fest Alert

Esteemed friend of BIB and Dizzies proprietor Ed Park will be appearing at this Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival: 5:00 p.m. Everyone's a (Former) Critic Three music and arts critics known for their humor discuss what it means to be a critic and the art of writing beyond the review. Featuring popular essayist, memoirist, critic and soon-to-be novelist Chuck Klosterman, Rolling Stone music critic and new memoirist Rob Sheffield, and Believer editor and former [name of publication redacted] editor/critic Ed Park, whose comic novel Personal Days will be released in 2008. Above: a rare still from Ed's 1988 audition for the role of Knox Overstreet in Dead Poets Society